The cartoons I have been showing you the past few posts appeared in the year 2014. They are from my own “best of 2014” compilation assembled as an entry in the National Cartoonist Society’s 2015 divisional awards which were to be announced at the annual Reuben Award extravaganza in May, 2015. My entry, of course, was in the “Best Comic Strip” division. No, I didn’t win, but thanks for asking. “Pearls before Swine” by Stephen Pastis won. I met Stephen when a bunch of us cartoonists visited St. Jude’s Hospital in Memphis last May, only days before the aforementioned awards ceremony. He’s a great guy and not quite so scruffy as he depicts himself in his strip.
50 responses to “Boxing Days”
As I believe I’ve mentioned, for many years prior to her untimely death in late 2013, my sister would crochet child-size “chemo caps” all year, and around the first of December would ship them, in the name of our church congregation, to St. Jude’s. Every time I see one of their appeals on TV, I like to think that one of the children shown might be wearing a cap she made.
ok- a little bit of serendipity with the boxes from internet shopping and St Jude’s. Sign in to Amazon through Amazon Smiles and a small percentage of your purchase will be donated to the charity of your choice. Many good ones, but I chose St. Jude.
‘Growing up is learning to disbelieve.’ True, but there are places [and, sadly, members of my congregation] where that would not go over well.
Peace, emb
Also, ‘Pearls before swine.’ On occasion, when there was too much rustling toward the end of a 50-minute hour, I’d say, ‘Hold on; let me cast a few more pearls.’ Probably 1% understood. Probably not PC.
Peace, emb
emb, PC should not be an issue for that activity. As long as it’s BC (Biblically Correct), preach on!
This has been a tiring day. My big deal was having Lowe’s come measure my main house roof to replace remainder of shingles with white tin. And put gutters and downspouts on entire house to keep water pouring off said tin from washing away more of yard.
I have to go to Lowe’s tomorrow to order the two plantation shutters and more Hardie board for the soffit and fascia boards that are damaged. That will leave nothing but the used to be carport to repurpose, roof and gutter.
I did take advantage of the BOGOTA deal on vegetable seeds to order a gracious amount of seeds for the gardens. I plan on having another beautiful garden this year, beginning with cool weather crops since I am stuck here for now. My feed store said she’d have plants today so I will run by tomorrow and see.
Wish I had someone who likes to garden around. Or even cook.
That’s something I hadn’t noticed before. Look at the bottom right corner of the comment box. There are a couple of faint(to my eyes) lines. If you click your mouse button and drag downward you can resize the box. Guess that is for people who have a lot to say and want to see it all before they send it.
Jackie, instead of plain downspouts, why not have them put in the perforated pipe in your yard connected to downspout? Then water goes underground instead of washing out everything.
Not Bogota, the BOGO deal on seeds. I am doing my usual climbing pole beans of many colors mixed with morning glories, climbing sugar snap and sweet peas, cucumbers, melons up all those trellises and the zinnias, marigolds, etc. In middle of all beds, surrounded by greens and squash, beans. It’s too pretty to eat.
Already have that done, Kyle has more French drains in.my yard than they do in Paris. We are building retaining walls and back filling before we put down the cobblestone patios on top of back fill to try to stop it sliding into creek.
It’s so dug up around here it looks like trench work in WWI.
Or you could get some of these under the downspout and have water to use on your garden.
http://www.gardeners.com/buy/watering/rain-barrels/
Believe It Or Not! In some areas collecting the runoff from your roof is illegal or strictly regulated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/24/it-is-actually-illegal-in-colorado-to-collect-the-rain-that-falls-on-your-home/
If I could keep fish in pond, keep coons from eating fish, keep my cats from eating fish, keep pond from filling with snakes, etc. Etc. Etc. What I. Have always wanted was a duck pond.,I love ducks and chickens. Right now I am settling on a stone patio in privacy fence with fountains and spitting birds and fish.
Debbe 😉 Let’s do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4d7Wp9kKjA
“Don’t you hate it when you forget where you left your Boeing 747-200F?” I know I’d be upset if I lost one
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/08/aviation/malaysia-aviation-airport-abandoned-aircraft/
Good morning Villagers…..
OK, I want to know who said it could snow again last night….aaauuuggghhhh!!!!
But on the brighter side, if no new cases of Avian flu do not show up, the state is going to lift some, just some, restrictions…like not having to get up at 4ish (which my Boss does) and have to swab some 22 hens inner mouths and rush to the epic center by 7 and have them sent off to be tested. Still have to hazmat it though.
Felt so sorry for Jonathan yesterday, both feed trucks and egg trucks came in, and they have to be disinfected before and after leaving the parking lot…the wind chill was terrible.
On comics, I only read two…..A&J, and BCN. BCN is on go comics, but she also had her own website where she posts a strip. The one on go comics is a few months behind. I think Ruth was the one that introduced that strip…I also read her twitter too.
Jerry, do you still read BCN?
Good eye Mark, never noticed those dots before. And prayers for your Mother today. Please, keep us posted on her recovery.
It would be so hard for me to work with disabled children, I would want to take all of them home with me. Thank you to those who do and you are greatly admired.
Ya’ll have a safe day.
GR 😉 she did……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=619kF0Y7zE4
today’s awwww……
http://cheezburger.com/8746911488
Where’s Indy Mindy??????
….and Miss Charlotte?????
As did most of you, I picked up a couple of A&J shirts: one short, one long.
Because of their high quality, they make great jogging shirts.
That’s not eagle nesting material. Somebody else building one? There was a single eagle on the nest several days ago. Some ads are more bearable than others. emb
http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles
Something I did not know about egg packaging. Besides the sell by date, there is a 3 digit number. That is the Julian date from 001-365 that represents the day of the year when the eggs were packed. And that they could be up to 30 days old when they are packed. Here’s a link with photos illustrating the two different dating methods used.
https://www.facebook.com/FreshEggsDaily/photos/a.246639655377951.55504.173382679370316/1032254396816469/?type=3
Hmm. Here’s MDNR eagle cam. Maybe all is well in Decorah. Interesting that they are maybe a month behind the TC area. Peace, emb
http://www.webcams.dnr.state.mn.us/eagle/
Debbe, Thanks for the compliment.It is difficult to not want to take handicapped children home.
God bless us every one.
When my son in law went to Haiti to make artificial legs for the earthquake victims we thought he would adopt every child so he could keep making their legs. There are few real orphans there but poverty is everywhere. They ended up making artificial legs for everyone missing a limb, no matter the cause as there had never been any artificial limbs available.
But Brandon did create limbs for infants and toddlers who had lost them in the quake. These children walked for the first time. But so did adults who had been without legs their entire lives.